An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEINEnergy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
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Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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